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Skynet was days ago, but that doesn’t mean the future of machines has halted. This is pretty cool — a “code-bending” instrument that allows for novel manipulation: Video games can play other video games. Music synthesizers can control word processors. Feedback loops turn everyday software tropes int
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We forget sometimes that videogames are part of a larger rubric of play, but these observations on how baseball “evolved” from Tim Carmody over at Snarkmarket are dead-on. You could probably make a similar argument about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: And every difference between early baseball and t
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PAUSE: Mario loses his head. [via]
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Five very angry avians. David Boni made this graphic for us and we popped it in the store!
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A new study about fish speciation suggests that human brain stimulation can have evolutionary consequences. Brain stimulation, eh? You mean like Portal 2. From io9: The elephantfish, like a few other creatures who live in cloudy water, communicates via weak electrical signals. Using a special organ
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“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” — writer G.K. Chesterton
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We know that mainstream videogame news can be tough to keep up with, so here’s your cheat sheet for the day. 1. PlayStation Network is to return this week after compromising more than 70 million users’ credit card numbers. 2. A new look at Goichi Suda & Shinji Mikami’s upcoming Shadows of the Damned
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One of the hacker’s more elusive skills is to turn random key mashing into beautiful streams of code at a mile a minute. Hacker Typer makes it easy as kung-fu (for Neo).
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Experts think social games are at least partly responsible for the decline of soap operas. “Women at home used to have these virtual friends, these soap stars,” says Maria Bailey author of Mom 3.0. “Now their virtual friends have come alive, and they don’t need one-way conversations. I grew up on Su
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PAUSE: A zombie-proof house. That is all. Wait, here’s more: The house, with its movable walls, has only one entrance, which is located on the second floor after crossing a drawbridge. More shots and details here.